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"Mara Pastor’s work traces a lyrical map full of travels and displacements. Her poetic subject is born from the liminal space between the “here and there”, and embraces this constant “traveling” or travesía as an inescapable Caribbean condition. Her literary journey presents a personal struggle, where the poetic voice demands it’s life back, from the literature that holds it hostage: “La literatura/me ha podrido la vida que soñé de niña/ y le ha hecho una casa sin ventanas,/ la literatura me tiene de rehén mirando/ hacia la casa, lamentándome.” The poetic subject fights against isolation by creating a universe that allows her to escape spatial confinement. Pastor takes the reader through an intimate journey into the past, which always seems to find its way back into the present, defying lineal perception of time. The travesía takes multiple forms; sometimes as the artistic route between the idea and the written verse, and other times as a flight from the past, people, and the self.” Lorna Torrado